Monday's Sound Off

I live in Boyertown. I am a senior over 70 and my husband is too. We just went for prescriptions and they went from $17 to $200-plus for three months. I think the seniors ought to go on the warpath. We can thank Obama very much. I wish they could help us and not keep taking from us. They raised our insurance and then they raised our premium for our prescriptions.

Well folks, we have just been duped by our president. He said no new taxes on 98 percent of the population, working class people, and now it’s going to cost each family $1,000. Here’s the number to the White House 202-456-1414. Please call and get this appealed. Call your congressman, make any kind of phone calls you can make.

The unions were great once they came into existence because people were really working for nothing. But after awhile they became too powerful. When they started asking for 13 weeks vacation and men on leave when their wives were pregnant, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I think the Upper Pottsgrove Township Commissioners have done a wonderful job of keeping our taxes down for the last four years and not increasing them. Maybe they should teach the government how to do the same thing.

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First of all, I don’t live in Limerick. I noticed in the paper the Limerick tax hike to pay for more police. If they would have left the casinos go in there, they wouldn’t need more police; the casino would have policed themselves. Now they’re spending all this money to police that great mall that they built.

Does anybody remember where the Round Table Bar was located? I think it was around York or King, somewhere in that area.

JUST WONDERING

I see our exalted Gov. Corbett is suing the NCAA over harsh sanctions. It’s good to see he’s doing his job. Now maybe he should do something about property taxes and get off his rear end and do the real job we elected him for.

BOB

Once again the Republicans get blamed for holding up the money for Sandy victims. However, it was a Democrat, I think his name was Obama, who said he would not sign any legislation that had pork in. Out of the $60 billion there was money for a fish hatchery in Alaska, a rum factory and for the EPA. What’s that got to do with Sandy victims? I think Obama was right by not passing that legislation.

I see in The Mercury that the slot machine revenue which is gambling in Pennsylvania rises for the sixth straight year. Coincidentally my school taxes have raised for six straight years also.

HAM BONE

I disagree with Limerick raising these taxes to add two more police. If it’s because of the outlet mall with the theft being incurred there everyday, hand the bill over to the outlet mall. They can pay for it. They have insurance on this stuff. Why should the taxpayers from Limerick have to pay for this stuff all the time?

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KATHLEEN AND BILL

Christmas decorations were beautiful this year. We appreciate seeing them and also the many who took the time to put them around their houses. Jesus saw them from heaven as we celebrated his birthday.

The Equate brand, particularly the arthritis pain, three times I’ve had bottles that are short the amount they’re supposed to. One had 40 missing and today I bought one that had 25 missing. It needs to be stopped. Somebody needs to do some checking.